Meet Regina

This isn’t particularly funny but look I am completely under water here still trying to compensate for the time SDCC made me miss and the fact that I’m posting this at 6AM on a Wednesday probably proves that

In case you’re not versed in six year old internet memes, here you go;

Incredibly psyched to see Regina in colour, that’s going to be great. How big. Is this the mgdmt answer to indominus Rex? The nondescript space future big brass TOTALLY seem like the kind of reckless and morally bankrupt group who would develop something like indominus, *especially* given the branding and badass emphasis of space future warfare.

^ this. Though T-Rex colouration should probably be nearer Indian Jungle Fowl/Asiatic pheasants’, given that the chicken/pheasant branch of galliforms are their nearest living relatives. Preeeettty birbosaur.

Of course, with the parrot DNA and apparent cognitive abilities, it probably won’t take Regina long to figure out doors…

Spacefuture Co. probably thought of that after the first few times it happened. Not necessarily escape shenanigans involving Regina, but an incident with an under-secured door that led to one or two of their precious pricey supersoldiers getting damaged.

Well, that creates horrifying mental images for pheasant season. Question: is it still illegal to kill a hen if she’s 16 feet tall and just ate your labrador? And what load would you use for that? I don’t think #4 is quite going to do it.

So long as we’re breaking out old memes… ¿por qué no los dos?
And let’s throw in ‘adorable’ too. That burd is more than fluffy enough to qualify, and toothiness is no disqualifier.
…oh gosh. Hagrid would love Mr Fish.

So is Regina a tiny T-rex, or is that just a realllly big cage full of huge bird toys?
I’m leaning towards small, on account of she can hold her weight up with her toes — but who knows the physical limits to the critters that the future gene-smiths can forge?

Therapy T-Rex yes please. Just walk into the supermarket like “oh, yeah, this girl, she’s my therapy dinosaur,” while Regina is watching the meat counter and eyeing the guy in the butcher’s apron and hoping for scraps. While of course being otherwise a well-trained dino ;)

Now imagine that scaled so deep you can’t exactly hear it, but powerful enough you can /feel/ it in your bones anyway.

Probably off by at least a bit…pre-avian dinosaurs didn’t have the syrinx yet (wrong lung structure), so they likely would not have had the same kind of complex vocalizations as birds or mammals, but they could have made sounds like booms, drums and coos (hadrosaurids in the lambeosaurinae family like parasaurolophus could honk like a foghorn all the way down to infrasonic with their crest, and had the potential for more complex vocalizations using that.), so one can imagine.

Obviously, Regina benefits from Parrot DNA and has a much better range and complexity than her ancestors likely did.

If Regina’s able to mimic things she hears like this, then she’s definitely got a syrinx. I wonder if that means she’s also got a high-pitched little (comparatively speaking, since she is herself HUGE) baby-doll type voice, like parrots usually do when they are mimicking people.

One of my first ever jobs at the tender age of 16 was doing housekeeping for a local bed and breakfast ranch down the street from my parents’ house. My employer had a gorgeous Amazon named Beretta who loved to whistle the Andy Griffith theme song.

Over and over…and over…and over.

Decades later, I can still remember every part of that song because of that bird.

I love that video. A comic strip inspired by that video? I love that too.
And kudos for transcribing the video to match up if you listen to it while reading the strip!
(If canon-Regina has a voice like an Amazon parrot, that certainly makes a lot of excuses to use funny singing or laughing videos, and I approve of them all!)

Serious, the more people ask why it’s not colored the less likely it is to be colored. I fully agree with why, too – she puts out free entertainment on a roughly regular schedule and people gripe that it needs to be improved.